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Date Sent: 2013-01-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 23, 2013 AM edition |
Gen. John Allen cleared in misconduct inquiry -- Judge lets NYPD resume suspicion-less stops
Molon Labe, Indeed -- Is Space Big Enough for Two Asteroid-Mining Companies? -- 'Inigo Montoya' shirt upsets travelers, leads to awkward flight -- Columbus Fellowship Foundation illustrates austerity struggles in Washington -- Obama ‘will not oppose’ House GOP plan to suspend debt limit until May -- After Tiller: Meet the only four doctors in the U.S. who still
perform third-trimester abortions.... -- Aspirin 'triples chance of
blindness disease' -- Glendale, CA City Council To Consider Gun Show Ban
-- Prince exits front line and admits: Yes, I've killed Taliban --
Palestinians see no hope for peace in Israeli polls -- Anonymous - #Operation American Freedom -- Al-Jazeera Explores
Sesame Street Songs As Instruments Of Torture -- 01-22-13 -- Richard Grove -
Ademo Freeman (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- The Truth About Assault
Weapons
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News Link • Corruption
Gen. John Allen cleared in misconduct inquiry
01-22-2013
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Washington Post
The Pentagon’s inspector general has cleared the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan of wrongdoing following an investigation into whether he exchanged inappropriate e-mails with the same Tampa socialite involved in the scandal with Petraeus
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Judge lets NYPD resume suspicion-less stops
01-22-2013
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AP
A federal judge let the New York Police Department resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while she decides what permanent remedies are necessary to prevent illegal stops at thousands of privately owned buildings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Molon Labe, Indeed
01-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Those New Yorkers who own guns should understand how likely it is that some of you will die. When the Redcoats marched on Lexington and Concord to seize the Patriots' arms, they killed farmers who resisted
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Is Space Big Enough for Two Asteroid-Mining Companies?
01-22-2013
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Space
The latest company to launch into the asteroid-mining business isn't worried about competition from its biggest rival, saying that the resources of deep space are vast enough to support a bustling new industry off Earth's surface.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
'Inigo Montoya' shirt upsets travelers, leads to awkward flight
01-22-2013
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The Sideshow
Wynand Mullins of New Zealand told Stuff Magazine that he was asked to remove his T-shirt because other airline passengers found it intimidating.
And, yes, we suppose if one weren't familiar with "The Princess Bride," seeing a shirt that reads, "H
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Columbus Fellowship Foundation illustrates austerity struggles in Washington
01-22-2013
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Washington Post
It took up just 3 lines in the appropriations bill. But it is a legend, a wonk’s campfire story. The government spending that nobody could kill. “For payment to the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation . . . $450,000, to remain avai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama ‘will not oppose’ House GOP plan to suspend debt limit until May
01-22-2013
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Washington Post
Forget about raising the federal debt limit. House Republicans are proposing to ignore it altogether " at least until May 18.
The House plans to vote Wednesday on a measure that would leave the $16.4 trillion borrowing limit intact but suspend it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
After Tiller: Meet the only four doctors in the U.S. who still perform third-trimester abortions....
01-22-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Daily Mail Reporter
After Tiller: Meet the only four doctors in the U.S. who still perform third-trimester abortions despite constant threats to their lives
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Aspirin 'triples chance of blindness disease'
01-22-2013
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http://www.telegraph.co, By Stephen Adams
Regular use of aspirin can almost triple the chance of developing a condition that causes more older people in Britain to lose their sight than any other, researchers are warning.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Glendale City Council To Consider Gun Show Ban
01-22-2013
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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com, CBSLA.com
City council members will consider a proposal Tuesday evening that would ban gun shows at the Glendale Auditorium.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
Prince exits front line and admits: Yes, I've killed Taliban
01-22-2013
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http://www.thesun.co, By DAVE WILLETTS
Royal hero also says he let people down over nude pix
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Palestinians see no hope for peace in Israeli polls
01-22-2013
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By Noah Browning and Saleh Salem
Palestinians evinced weary indifference on Tuesday as Israelis voted in an election set to produce a hardline government keener to expand Jewish settlements on occupied land than seek peace.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Taxpayers Pick Up Tab For US Military Missions In Mali "Assisting" The French
01-22-2013
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Zero Hedge
As reported previously, not only are there currently US boots on the ground in the latest geopolitical "anti Al-Qaeda" snafu in Mali, but it turns out a US presence had been secretly in place for many months prior to the recent escalation in French-l
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Anonymous - #Operation American Freedom
01-22-2013
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OfficialAnonymousTV1 YouTube Channel
The United States Government is seeking to end the constitution; this will endanger thee American people and we will not stand by and watch while this government of deception prepares to rip away from us all of the freedoms that our forefathers grant
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Military
Al-Jazeera Explores Sesame Street Songs As Instruments Of Torture
01-22-2013
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kroq.cbslocal.com
An Arabic news agency follows a songwriter as he uncovers how his music was used as a weapon of war.
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Robert Lee
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Reference Link • Gun Rights
The Truth About Assault Weapons
http://www.assaultweapon.info/
Prior to 1989, the term "assault weapon" did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of "assault rifles."
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Phil Mickelson says adios because of taxes
01-21-2013
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CBS News
But if you add up, if you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama turns ‘austerity inauguration’ into a dash for corporate cash
01-21-2013
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The Guardian
As Obama revels in his second inauguration, there is no ceiling on what an individual can give, corporations and lobby groups are very welcome and the presidential inaugural committee has been going on a fundraising binge as though there was no tomor
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fitch ratings agency highlights threat of aging population time-bomb
01-21-2013
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AFP
“Whilst a successful resolution of the current fiscal crisis remains the most important driver for many advanced-economy ratings, without further reform to address the impact of long-term aging these economies face a second, longer-term fiscal shock,
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say
01-21-2013
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Washington Post
The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Rapper at Obama Inauguration Tossed From Stage For Anti-Obama Rant
01-21-2013
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It was supposed to be all about hopey-changey stuff.
Instead it became an Obama bash when rapper Lupe Fiasco started trashing Obama.
That’s when security threw him off the stage and escorted him from the premises.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Russia sending aircraft to evacuate its citizens from Syria
01-21-2013
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Washington Post
Russia is sending two planes to Lebanon on Tuesday to evacuate more than 100 of its citizens from Syria, the Emergencies Ministry said, in the clearest sign yet that Moscow may be preparing for President Bashar al-Assad’s possible defeat.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Chemist at 2nd Mass. crime lab charged with tampering with drug evidence
01-21-2013
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AP
A chemist at a state crime lab tampered with drug evidence, authorities said in Massachusetts, where a chemist at another lab was accused last year of faking test results in a scandal that threw thousands of criminal cases into question.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
In China, signs that one-child policy may be coming to an end
01-21-2013
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Reuters
China could be considering relaxing its harsh one-child policy because of women like Hu Yanqin, who lives in a village at the edge of the Gobi desert.
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News Link • Climate Change
Obama gives unexpected nod to climate as second term priority
01-21-2013
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Reuters
President Barack Obama said on Monday he will confront climate change in his second term in office, an unexpected vow that puts the politically charged issue among his domestic priorities alongside gun control and immigration reform.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Utah's Elected Sheriffs Warn Obama On Gun-Control - "We are prepared to trade our lives,'
01-21-2013
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Washington Examiner
"We will enforce the rights guaranteed to our citizens by the Constitution, No federal official will be permitted to descend upon our constituents and take from the what the Bill of Rights...has given them."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Internet
Amazon Woos Advertisers with What It Knows about Consumers
01-21-2013
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Technologyreview.com
The e-commerce giant has the data that all advertisers want"what millions of people are shopping for"and now it plans to use it.
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News Link • Military
Elites Now Building Professional European Army
01-21-2013
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The Daily Bell
Support wanes for conscript system in Europe ... Austrians vote on army conscription this weekend, an issue on which voters in Switzerland might also be polled this year.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
How The 'Computer Wizard' Who Created The First Internet Virus Got Off Without A Day Of Jail
01-21-2013
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Business Insider
The suicide of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz has spurred calls to reform the federal anti-hacking law used to prosecute him for illegally downloading millions of academic articles at the MIT campus.
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News Link • Economy - International
The 'Best' Countries In The World Have Changed A Lot Since 1988
01-21-2013
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Business Insider
The Economist Intelligence Unit recently published its "Where To Be Born in 2013" list, a measure of which countries provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead.
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News Link • Internet
Google aims to replace passwords with ID ring
01-21-2013
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Prison Planet
In a research paper, two security experts at the web giant have outlined a future in which the main way of guaranteeing we are who we say we are online will be possession of a physical token, perhaps embedded in smartphones or even jewellery.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sen. Schumer: Universal background checks are ‘sweet spot’ for gun safety
01-21-2013
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Prison Planet
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday voiced optimism that Congress could pass legislation that would implement universal background checks on firearm purchasers, calling it “the sweet spot.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Guns Across America in Phoenix Arizona (video)
01-21-2013
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Fishioteque on YouTube
Begins with our very own Ernest Hancock, then Russel Pierce, and Alan Korwin.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Food
Global Treaty Signed to Stop Deadly Mercury While FDA Allows it Unchecked In Your Food
01-21-2013
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Prison Planet
Over 140 nations have come together under a new treaty to curb deadly mercury pollution over serious risks to worldwide health,meanwhile the FDA is still allowing the mass majority of US citizens to chomp down on mercury-containing processed food.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Japan Warns It May Fire On Chinese Aircraft Over Disputed Islands
01-21-2013
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Prison Planet
A week ago we reported that following what China said was a response to counter “Japanese military aircraft disrupting the routine patrols of Chinese administrative aircraft” over the East China Sea,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Looks To Install Microphones In “Urban Areas” That Can Listen to Conversations
01-21-2013
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Prison Planet
The Department of Homeland Security is looking to install “gunshot detector” microphones that are capable of listening to conversations throughout “urban areas” of Washington, DC.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Bill Suicide for Dems Seeking Re-election
01-21-2013
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Prison Planet
Republican Sen. John Barrasso said he doubts Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring most of Obama’s anti-Second Amendment proposals to the floor this session.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The Coming Debt Limit Drama: Government Wins, We Lose - by Ron Paul
01-21-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Democrats literally do not believe we have a deficit and debt problem.... Republicans talk a good game when it comes to government debt, but have no credibility to argue against deficits or abuses of executive power.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Screening of final cut of Silver Circle movie to be released at Liberty Forum, February 21st, 2013
01-21-2013
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Silver Underground
Our first ever theater screening is happening…on February 21st at 9pm (doors open at 8:15pm for food and drinks) in conjunction with the Free State Project Liberty Forum.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Racism
Note to a Childhood Hero - by A.X Perez
01-21-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Dear Dr. King,
Thought I'd let you know how things have gone in the 44, nearly 45 years since you've passed. The good news is that state supported racism is a thing of the past in the United States. I would also like to inform you that your exam
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